Michele Bachmann is a Minnesota Congresswoman and the sweetheart of the Tea Party. She has ignorantly riled up thousands of people with barrels of lies and propaganda against Obama and the Democratic party.
Marcus and Michele Bachmann
Her actions have been at best irresponsible and at worst, criminal.
All the while, she has smiled and made some of the most hysterical comments ever made in a political arena. Some of my favorites include:
“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”
“I’m a foreign correspondent on enemy lines, and I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.”
“But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.” .
“Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanatacism to the point where she has even said she is trying to save the planet. We all know someone did that 2,000 years ago.”
Bradlee Dean
But in all seriousness, Michele Bachmann
scares me the most out of all these GOP candidates.
Between her pal, Bradlee Dean (who has
advocated for imprisonment of gays and lesbian, and has said about gay people – “On average they molest 117 people before they’re found out.”).
Bachmann has repeatedly said that (abolishing) gay marriage is her “number one issue.”
A few other homophobic quotes from the Congresswoman include:
“This is a very serious matter, because it
is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.”“It’s part of Satan I think to say that this is “gay.” It’s anything but “gay.”
“If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.”
“Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.”
These are just a few of the ignorant and hateful comments Mrs. Bachmann has made about LGBT people. But this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the damage her and her husband are doing.
Michele’s husband is “Dr.” Marcus Bachmann. Bachmann is no more a doctor than I am a Wimbledon contender. But unlike my false claims to be a tennis superstar, Bachmann’s claims to be a medical professional can kill people. Bachmann practices without a license.
According to his practice’s website, Bachmann dismisses any formal training because “Christ is the Almighty Counselor.”
One might ask why Bachmann is getting Medicaid funds if some dead guy is doing all the work, and how Mrs. Bachmann can rail against Medicaid funds when those funds are clearly helping her keep her hair so coiffed, but I digress. On to the crux of the discussion — Bachmann’s clinic is receiving federal funds so that he can “cure homosexuality.”
Bachmann, whose own sexuality has frequently come into question, practices “reparative therapy” on gay people. He has referred to gay people as “barbarians” that need to be “educated” and “disciplined.”
This kind of therapy has been proven to be harmful and even lethal to people who enter into it. While I cannot seem to find any reports or any of Bachmann’s patients who have come forward to discuss his harmful practices, the harm done by this type of “therapy,” has a long, bloody track record.
Through Mrs. Bachmann’s campaigning, this idea that gay people can somehow be “cured” will be given validation to those who deify her and hang on her every word.
This will send more parents home to their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender children to send them in to “reparative therapy,” where those children will learn to hate who they are – sometimes to the point of suicide.
One more thing … the LGBT community has been calling out others quite a bit in the past two years for anti-LGBT bullying. The assumption that a child might be gay because of the way he or she acts or speaks or even walks, has caused some horrific retribution from classmates, teachers and even parents generation after generation.
“Dr.” Marcus Bachmann’s sexuality is known only to him and whoever else he wants to know. Some are concerned that our assumptions about him based on the way he acts, speaks and walks might be hypocritical and might be a bad message to send young people — that he should be called “gay” simply because of his mannerisms.
It’s a tough discussion, because no, we absolutely should not make assumptions based on outdated stereotypes.
But at the same time, Bachmann himself has inadvertently alluded to the fact he might be gay on more than one occasion by using the “we” pronoun instead of “they,” and with hints like that, coupled with the fact that he is a public figure potentially responsible for the suicide of LGBT people, his actions and possible hypocrisy must be spoken about openly.
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It’s not just due to the fact that she’s crazy…?
I think it would be just about as crazy as she is to even take her seriously as a contender. Regardless if her beliefs are the same as the people supporting her, her sheer lack of historic knowledge and constantly giving false information to the media should be reason enough to know she cant run an office of any kind. I am shocked that anyone would back this person, and the people backing her must have no idea of history as well to believe she knows what she is talking about.
Gosh, I wonder how many gays, lesbians, transgender and/or bisexual people there are in her family. I betcha there’s at least a few. The interesting thing about people who live in glass houses is that they don’t usually know they’ve even built one until someone starts breaking their windows.
Ignorant, close-minded, simple-minded people, who DO NOT belong in politics or the mental health field. They need their own ISLAND far from people!!!
These people are batshit crazy (With being part of the Tea Party aside). I’m with the whole lot that believes Marcus (just like Pastor Damon Thompson) is either insane or so deep in the closet that he’s in Narnia. If Bachmann wins, I’ve lost all hope in humanity for this country; and I will be on the next flight to Canada.
I’m actually surprised that this article wasn’t much, much longer. It saddens me so that someone not just ignorant but _willfully_ and _steadfastly_ ignorant is hailed and has won any elective office anywhere.
These people would be a joke if WE weren’t their punch line. Hitler made absurd statements like hers and we know how his popularity soared after each speech…
Michele, I’m not dysfunctional. I don’t have a disorder. Stop treating me and hundreds of thousands like we are. Respect us and we’ll respect you. But that’s too much to ask I would presume.
Brittany, love, Aslan would have eaten him if her were. He would have poisoned the poor lion but…
Agents of hate! They actually think that the Lgbt community is going to let them get away with all of their mouth spewing & hate they keep spreading? I for one will do whatever it takes to keep them out of office!!!
Funny how much pride she takes in her Iowa upbringing. Didn’t Iowa just legalize gay marriage?
They are so horribly evil. Total agents of hate.
For these people to actually make it that high, only shows how sick our own people must be.
As a pansexual transwoman who leans conservative I actually strongly agree that Bachmann is batshit crazy. I also believe this article could have been done a lot better, it seemed very rushed and put together in a pretty lazy way. Quotes should be supported with dates and where they were said. Anyway, if Bachman wins the primary I’m leaving the country and will watch its downfall from afar.
The Bachmanns are Anita Bryant & her husband all over again. And we all know how well that turned out for those two. Plus the fact he’s so obviously a self-hating closeted gay homophobe it’s not even funny.
They are idiots who don’t have other work to do. They are doing it just for controversy. And to be in a news.
Because if they don’t do that no one know that they are big idiots.
A fake doctor who admits to having no training is able to collect Medicaid funds for anti-gay “therapy”? WHAT??!!
Sorry for the stereotype but just look at the queen’s wave in the supplied pic for this article. Closet cases drive me crazy!
This woman wants to turn America into a christian Theocracy.
I applaud their desire to actively make themselves enemies of our ever-growing community. It will make it so much easier to tear their efforts apart when they’re so openly hateful. Love conquers
Can’t this be said of any social conservative?
smh… I guess we don’t have enough hatred in this world already.
Their so dangerous because their so fucking ignorant !!!!!!!
Why are my tax $$$ funding this lunatic?
Karma will bite them so hard in the ass, they won’t know what hit them.
I just don’t understand how you can serve the people, and represent them, but at the same time blatantly express hate towards a large group of them. Absolutely ridiculous to me.
No.
Marcus Bachmann’s sexual orientation is obvious. Without exception, those who publicly harass us and those who perform so-called ‘reparative’ therapies, have all been discovered to be closeted gay men.
That includes Marcus Bachmann, by default.
Well, she was born in Canada so she isn’t eligible to be POTUS anyway ;)
Before she became a national “nut-job”, she was Minnesota’s “nut-job”. Two classic Michele Bachmann gaffs that the national audience may not know about:
1. When Michele Bachmann was serving in the MN Legislature, she hid in the bushes and spied on a pro-LGBT rally, OutFront Minnesota’s Lobby Day: April 8, 2005, at the MN State Capitol. (http://www.minnpost.com/bloisolson/2008/10/21/3976/michele_bachmanns_memorable_moments)
2. During a debate with Patty Wetterling in 2006 while campaigning for Congress the first time, Michele Bachmann called Terri Schiavo “healthy”. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f13Dj2HaRWg)
We Minnesotans, especially those of us in the 6th District, have been embarrassed by her long before she became a national figure. Can’t wait for the national media to dig up her record in the district!
I wonder what Ms. Bachmann would think of this. The institution of “marriage” is a form of contract slavery. The legal language is very revealing. It’s referred to as “the marriage contract”, and its principle concerns are: family name, inheritance, property rights, benefits, “custody” of children and the like. In marriage, “wife” is an equivalent to “indentured servant”. The status of children is even lower. Children are as close to human-beings-as-property as you can get. You have “custody” of them.
actually, i think michelle and marcus bachmann might be the best thing that ever happened to the lgbt community. just shine a light on that hate and prejudice and let everybody get a good, long look.
elaine burgher